Microsoft is a technology corporation founded in 1975 that develops and sells operating systems, software, and services. It is best known for its Windows operating systems and Office software suite. Some key events in Microsoft's history include the launch of Windows 1.0 in 1985, dominating the personal computer market with over 90% usage share, and acquiring companies like LinkedIn and Nokia. Microsoft faces competition from companies like Apple, Google, and IBM in areas like operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, and games. It generates revenue primarily from sales of Windows, Office, the Xbox platform, and cloud services like Azure.

2. Contains
• Introduction
• History
• Hololens
• Products
• Partnership
• Competitor
• Make Money & Promotion
• Conclusion

3. Introduction
It consists of several families of operating
systems, each of which cater to a certain
sector of the computing industry.
Microsoft is a multinational computer
technology corporation.
Microsoft Windows is a metafamily of
graphical operating systems developed,
marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

4. • Microsoft introduced an operating
environment named Windows on November
20, 1985, as a graphical operating system
shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing
interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
• Microsoft Windows came to dominate the
world's personal computer market with over
90% usage share, overtaking Mac OS, which
had been introduced in 1984.

5. History
• The history of Microsoft began on
April 4, 1975, when it was founded by
Bill Gates and Paul Allen in
Albuquerque.
• In 1980, Microsoft formed a
partnership with IBM that allowed
them to bundle Microsoft's operating
system with IBM computers.
• Microsoft launched several versions
of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s.

6. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and
supports a wide range of software products
for computing devices
• As of June 30, 2015, Microsoft has a global
annual revenue of $86.83 Billion USD and
128,076 employees worldwide.

7. Video Clips

8. All Time Windows Chart
• 1983 Windows 1.01
• 1986 Windows 1.01,1.02
• 1987 Windows 1.04 ,2.03
• 1988 Windows 2.10
• 1989 Windows 2.11
• 1990 Windows 3.0
• 1992 Windows 3.1
• 1993 Windows NT 3.1, 3.11,3.
• 1994 Windows NT 3.5
• 1995 Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51
• 1996 Windows NT 4.0
• 1998 Windows 98
• 2000 Windows ME , Windows 2000
• 2001 Windows XP
• 2005 Windows XP professional
• 2007 Windows Vista
• 2009 Windows 7
• 2012 Windows 8
• 2013 Windows 8.1
• 2015 Windows 10
• 2016 Windows Server

9. Windows 10 • Microsoft releases Windows 10, the latest
version of the company’s operating
system.
• the software will offer a mix of the
familiar and new to the people who run
earlier versions of it on more than 1.5
billion computers and other devices.

10. Hololens

11. Video Clips

12. Top Microsoft Products of 2015 & 2016
• Skype for Business
• Exchange Server
• Microsoft Azure (Very
Popular)
• SharePoint (Very Popular)
• Windows Client
• Office 365 (Very Popular)
• Windows Server

14. Acquisition By Microsoft
• Microsoft's first acquisition
was Forethought on June 29, 1987.
Forethought was founded in 1983 and
developed a presentation program that
would later be known as Microsoft
PowerPoint.
• Recently in 2016 Microsoft acquired
LinkedIn which cost them $26.2 billion.
• They have also acquired some renowned
companies like Nokia , Skype , Talko Inc.
and many more.

15. Competitor
• Microsoft Corporation’s (MSFT)
primary competitors include
some of the most prominent
technology companies in the
industry.
• Apple (AAPL),
• Google (GOOG)
• SAP.
• IBM (IBM) .
• Oracle (ORCL), among others.

17. • The Microsoft company faces stiff
competition in several key areas of the
technology sector.

18. Make Money & Promotion

19. • Its current best-selling products are the
Microsoft Windows operating system.
• Microsoft Office suite of productivity
software, Xbox a line of entertainment of
games, music and video and Bing

20. Microsofts XBOX GAME & Entertainment

21. Microsoft Student Partners & DreamSpark
Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) are student technology
leaders, empowered to build Microsoft communities on their
campus and share their deep knowledge and passion for
technology with their fellow classmates.
DreamSpark is all about giving students Microsoft
professional-level developer and designer tools at no cost so
that students can chase their dreams and create the next big
breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on their
career. DreamSpark is also a subscription for Academic
Institutions.

22. Microsoft Bangladesh Perspective
• Sonia Bashir Kabir is country manager
at Microsoft Bangladesh.
• Partner in learning program has
trained 15,000 teachers and benifited
2 million students in Bangladesh.
• She get founders award in excellence
platinum club in microsoft.

23. Conclusion
• Microsoft dominance because of
antitrust case, affected only for
short run.
• Microsoft’s OS monopoly
continues today.
• Microsoft has no many actions
against it, can only cover the
most important.
• Law should not eradicate
competition rather it should
ensure proper competition.

24. Reference Link
• https://www.google.com/search?q=conclusion+of+microsoft&
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• https://www.quora.com/Microsoft-How-hard-is-it-to-reach-
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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamSpark
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/features